Treholt’s family confirms this Aftenposten.
Treholt lived to be 80 years old. He was born on 13 December 1942 at Brandbu.
He was a civil servant and politician for the Labor Party. In the 1980s, Treholt worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1984 he was arrested at Fornebu airport, on his way to Vienna.
In 1985, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage for the benefit of the Soviet Union and Iraq. Treholt has for all these years claimed to be innocent of espionage. He tried to have his case reopened several times, without success.
Arne Treholt and the KGB officers Titov and Lopatin in Vienna August 1983. Photo: PST/NTB scanpix
In 1992, Treholt was released and pardoned for health reasons. Since then, Treholt lived as a businessman in Cyprus and in Moscow, where he lived for the last few years. It was also in the Russian capital that Treholt passed away, after a short illness.
Treholt is survived by a son and two grandchildren.
Facts: This is Arne Treholt
- Arne Treholt was born on 13 December 1942.
- Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labor Party.
- Was bureau chief in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he was arrested in 1984 and accused of espionage for the benefit of the Soviet Union and Iraq.
- He was sentenced in 1985 in the Eidsivating Court of Appeal to 20 years in prison for having revealed both military and political secrets to the Soviet intelligence service KGB in the period 1974–83 and to Iraqi intelligence 1981–83. He was pardoned on 3 July 1992 on health grounds after serving eight years and five months of his sentence.
- He tried to have the case reopened, but this was rejected several times.
- In recent years, Treholt has lived in Moscow, where he has run a business.
Sources: Great Norwegian lexicon and NTB
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